“No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level – I mean the wages of decent living.” – Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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USW National News
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Letting Rural Health Care Bleed Out
Senate Republicans want to gut Medicaid payments to rural hospitals that are already struggling to survive. The Republicans' plan would hurt local economies and create health deserts in many parts of... —
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Trump Stabs Workers in the Back
By David McCallUSW International President Federal officials, then-Gov. Eric Holcomb, union leaders, company representatives and dozens of guests assembled at Heidelberg Materials in Mitchell, Ind., l... —
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Overcoming Lies and Broken Promises
By David McCallUSW International President Justin Arango said support for a union built over the years among workers at JSW Steel in Mingo Junction, Ohio, as the company repeatedly failed to deliver f... —
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Medicaid Saved Her. Now, She Gives Back.
By David McCallUSW International President Tonya Clark sat in her car along the side of the road—sobbing—after the doctor’s office called to say she had breast cancer. She worried about dying young, l... —
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Betraying America’s Workers
By David McCallUSW International President Marshal Cummings monitors the local obituaries and queries retired miners about their health conditions, building his own database of the lives cut short by... —